Originally Posted by
Suerreal
Sigh.
Your body has to still be alive in order to harvest vital organs.
Your brain has to be dead, as determined by several different objective measures including monitors showing flatline electrical activity or scans showing absence of blood flow throughout the brain. This isn't just some doc's opinion that you're beyond saving. Your brain is dead. Your body & organs will soon follow no matter how many tubes and machines you're hooked up to.
Given a chance to save the person they're working on or a chance to help people they'll never see, I can absolutely guarantee that any docs & nurses will make saving the person in front of them and offering hope to the family and friends to whom they have to deliver good or bad news, their top priority.